The women of this century are neither idle nor indifferent. They are working with might and main to mitigate the evils which stare... them in the face on every side, but much of their work is without knowledge. It is aimed at the effects, not the cause; it is plucking the spoiled fruit; it is lopping off the poisonous branches of the deadly upas tree, which but makes the root more vigorous in sending out new shoots in every direction. A right understanding of physiological law teaches us that the cause must be removed; the tree must be girdled; the tap-root must be severed. The tap-root of our social upas lies deep down at the very foundations of society. It is woman's dependence. It is woman's subjection. Hence, the first and only efficient work must be to emancipate woman from her enslavement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one d...oes not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks fa...ster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

"In great misfortunes," he told himself, "people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within ...one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in."Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to dif...ferent names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this i...nterest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Realism holds that things known may continue to exist unaltered when they are not known, or that things may pass in and out of the... cognitive relation without prejudice to their reality, or that the existence of a thing is not correlated with or dependent upon the fact that anybody experiences it, perceives it, conceives it, or is in any way aware of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »